The Patterdale Parish Walk is 7 miles long and is mainly downhill. It starts at Kirkstone Top (roughly the half-way point of the Patterdale Parish Boundary) and ends at Patterdale School. The route is marked out with 24 markers and along the route there is also a fun quiz to keep one and all amused. Route as follows:

From Kirkstone Top car park, this Walk drops down the feel side (NOT the Kirkstone Road) to the Red Pit Car Park, down the track to the west of the Kirkstone road and beck, over the small Caiston Beck Bridge, past the Ancient Settlement, through Hartsop Hall, Brotherswater, Cow Bridge, Hartsop Road End, Beckstone Farm, Crook-a-beck, and Side Farm, ending at Patterdale School.

If you’d like to join this walk please contact us.Please note you must register an interest before the end of June to take part. Alternatively if you can’t participate but would like to sponsor one of the teams, please click the “Sponsorship” link.

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING ADVICE FOR WALKERS PARTICIPATING IN THE MAIN PATTERDALE PARISH BOUNDARY WALK. PEOPLE TAKE PART ENTIRELY AT THEIR OWN RISK.

Everyone taking part must belong to a Team which should have 3 or more people.

Teams should be experienced and fit and able to complete the Walk.

Teams must start at Kirkstone Top car park between 10:30 a.m. And 1:00 p.m. and should finish (c.2-4 hours later) at Patterdale School

Teams should follow the route as described above and as detailed on the 1:25 000 Ordnance Survey Map.

Everyone must check in three times:

At Kirkstone Top (map ref: 401 080)

Finally at Patterdale School (map ref: 394 162)

Patterdale School is the Control Centre (Tel: 017684 82383)

It is essential that everyone reports to Patterdale School at the end of the relevant walk so they can be checked out. This includes people who have dropped out - who should report from the valley bottom and not from the fell!

People within each Team should keep together all the time and should not split up

If one Team member wishes to drop out, the other team members should take responsibility and make sure he or she is safe and reports to Patterdale School

If a Team member becomes a casualty, one member should stay with the casualty while another reports to Patterdale School